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Message   VRSS    All   The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Fo   August 11, 2025
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Title: The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign
Energy

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/...

China has begun construction of a $167 billion hydropower facility on Tibet's
Yarlung Tsangpo River that would generate triple the output of the Three
Gorges Dam. The project employs a run-of-the-river design, drilling deep
tunnels through mountains to bypass the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, where
the river drops nearly two vertical miles over 300 miles. Water diverted
through the tunnels will drive turbines at both ends without creating a large
reservoir. The river currently produces just 2% of its hydropower potential.
A $7 billion transmission network will deliver electricity to Guangdong
province, Hong Kong, and Macau. China imported nearly a quarter of its energy
supply in 2023.

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